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- Link
- https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/moving-image-and-recorded-sound-division
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Ethnology, Music, Politics and Government, Religious Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
The Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division documents the experiences of peoples of African descent, as they have been captured via audiovisual technology. The collections encompass a variety of formats including motion picture film (released prints and outtakes), video recordings, and music, and spoken arts recordings in several formats. Included in the broad range of audiovisual materials are documentary and dramatic films, principally focusing upon international political, anthropological, religious, and cultural arts themes. A unique collection of public affairs television programmes documents the local concerns of African Americans in communities across the United States. Public service announcements and commercial advertisements are also strongly represented.
Since 1980 the MIRS has conducted oral history interviews through its Oral History/Video Documentation Programme. These primary source video testimonies are part of one of the nation’s longest-running video oral history programme.
The collections are held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Researchers from abroad may access the collection on site having obtained a temporary library card. Increasingly, the Center’s audio-visual holdings are being cataloged in The New York Public Library’s online public access catalogue.
Other
Record only
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/pilots/state-of-terror
- Category
- Social Sciences
- Subject
- Current Affairs, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Religious Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
An interactive media report by BBC journalist Peter Taylor on the inner workings of Islamic State. The site is arranged in chapters (e.g. Financing Terror, Recruits. Kidnap and Ransom) and includes interactive graphics, film footage and interviews with senior IS members. STATE OF TERROR’s producer, Freddie Martin, is interviewed about the making of the project.
Other
Online
Moving image
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- Link
- https://conwayhall.org.uk/
- Category
- Social Sciences
- Subject
- Education, Politics and Government, Religious Studies, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Journals, Organisations, Streaming/Download, Vacancies/Careers, Web Links
Conway Hall is owned by Conway Hall Ethical Society and was first opened in 1929. The name was chosen in honour of Moncure Daniel Conway (1832 – 1907), anti-slavery advocate, out-spoken supporter of free thought and biographer of Thomas Paine. The Hall now hosts a wide variety of lectures, classes, performances, community and social events. It is renowned as a hub for free speech and independent thought. The website hosts a small number of videos of the lectures including LONDON THINKS: THE RISE OF UKIP and THE OPPRESSION AND RESILIENCE OF WOMEN.
Other
Online
Moving image
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- Link
- https://libraries.indiana.edu/iulmia
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Biology, Chemistry, Education, Film Studies, Languages, Physics, Psychiatry, Psychology, Religious Studies
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
Indiana University’s moving image archive is one of the largest and most comprehensive academic film collections in the world. Particularly noteworthy is its vast educational film collection, which includes career training films, U.S. Department of War productions, and more than 5,600 programmes produced by the National Educational Television (NET) network, the precursor to PBS. A selection of over 200 digitised films from the archive is now freely available to view online. With prominence given to the educational films, this resource provides a valuable window into the history and development of the use of moving image in education and covers a wide range of academic subjects including African American Studies, Anatomy and Physiology, Film Studies, Psychology and Teacher Education. The collection covers over eight decades, from 1909 to 1994, but the majority of films are from the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The standard of the clips is generally good but in many cases the deterioration of the original film is inevitably reflected in the quality of the digital object itself.
Other
Online
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- Link
- https://newbooksnetwork.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Current Affairs, Dance, Drama, Economics, Education, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, Food, French Studies, Genetics, Geography, German Studies, History, Law, Literature, Mathematics, Media Studies, Music, Photography, Physics, Politics and Government, Psychology, Religious Studies, Russian Studies, Social Studies, Sports Science, Technology, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Reviews, Streaming/Download
This is a useful place to visit to keep track of recently published books in academia and scholarly research. The site consists of a series of podcasts/interviews in which authors and academics discuss their new publications.
Other
Online
Moving image
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- Link
- https://www.89up.org/product/little-atoms
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Astronomy, Current Affairs, General Science, Literature, Physics, Politics and Government, Religious Studies
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
A podcast "based around ideas of the enlightenment" which promotes science, freedom of expression, scepticism, secular humanism, and often ends up dealing with the converse of these values: superstition, religious fundamentalism and authoritarianism. The show has featured numerous guests from the worlds of science, literature, philosophy and politics, including Frank Furedi, A.C. Grayling, Christopher Hitchens, Jonathan Meades to name but a few. The approach is often polemical but the result is always informative and entertaining. The programmes are free to download. The series is also broadcast on Resonance FM.
Other
Online
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- Link
- https://faraday-institute.org/index.php
- Category
- Science and Technology
- Subject
- General Science, Religious Studies
- Type of resource
- Courses, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Update
This interdisciplinary research enterprise, based at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, was set up in 2006 to conduct research into various topics at the intersection between science and faith. The multimedia archive of videos and podcasts features courses, lectures, research seminars and discussions. The titles give a flavour of the subject matter: Genetic and Cellular Complexity: A Critique of Intelligent Design; Is God a Virus? and Historical Interactions Between Science and Religion. The material can be watched in Flash video, or downloaded in medium or high-quality video, and can also be accessed in audio only formats. The lectures are also available to buy, via an online shop, in CD or DVD format.
Other
Online
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- Link
- http://www.bibledex.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Religious Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This website, which is hosted by Nottingham University, consists of a series of short videos, each one about a single book of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Many of the academics involved are biblical scholars, but the beauty of the site lies in its multifaceted approach, so that as well as theology, it takes in aspects of literature, geography, philosophy, politics, art and science, looking at the Bible in the context of the history of Western civilization.
Other
Online
Moving image
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- Link
- https://www.youtube.com/user/GiffordLectures
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Politics and Government, Religious Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The Gifford Lectures were established in 1898 "to contribute to the advancement of theological and philosophical thought". The lectures take place over the course of the academic year in four Scottish universities: St Andrews, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The contents of the series from 2009 onwards are freely available as video and audio podcasts. Recent speakers include Terry Eagleton speaking on the God Debate, and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown on The Future of Jobs and Justice. Perhaps more typical is historian Diarmaid MacCulloch’s series of lectures on the history of silence in the Christian church. The series is also streamed on a YouTube channel.
Other
Online
Moving image
Audio
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- Link
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp/episodes/player
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Art, Current Affairs, Economics, Ethnology, Film Studies, Geography, History, Music, Politics and Government, Radio Studies, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
Alistair Cooke’s first Letter from America - initially called American Letter - was broadcast by the BBC in March, 1946. It was to be the first of 2,869 such broadcasts, spanning 58 years, making it by far the longest-running talk programme of any radio station in the world. The 920 surviving recordings, broadcast between 1946 and 2004, are now online. The can be searched by date and by theme, the latter including such categories as US presidents, race, music & movies, history and so on.